New General Spam help?

[Scottiths]

Is there any workaround to having a billion-de-twelve people in my court while running LoR DLC? For every retinue I hire I get a new general, but I only need 1 per flank. I would actually prefer to have no new generals and have to invite them to court than the intense spam I get now

I can't expand by inviting claimants and breeding them materially because they won't have children when there are 123 people in the court. I guess what I really need is a way to turn off getting generals per retinue. Is it possible to mod that in?

 

[JonStryker]

I guess we need to wait for a fix by Paradox. I hope they release a patch alongside the Aztecs-DLC which fixes this. The game REALLY starts to lag A LOT after while, at least partially because of this.
To get rid of them you can matrilineally marry them off (preferably to kinswomen). It takes a while to get rid of all of them, though.
I usually use those matrillineally married guys to populate my newly acquired land.

 

[Scottiths]

I wish I had thought of that sooner when it would not have been so tedious. Now I have to go through 100 of them

Still doesn't solve the lag though.

 

[unmerged(494787)]

The problem is that then when one dies you have to do it for his replacement. Free Investiture can help, but that's limited in that it only works for direct vassal bishops (and you may need to use it for incompetent sons), and you have to wait for the current title holder to kick the bucket.

 

[Rado]

They should remove the automatic general generation when you hire a retinue and add a "Hire swordsman" option in the intrigue screen (like Invite Noble to Court, etc). Serves the same purpose and eliminates the clutter.

 

[Scottiths]

I wouldn't mind having to assign a noble to be general. There is no reason to need a general for ever retinue and I usually have at least 2 or 3 good martial courtiers that I can use.

 

[JScott991]

It does no good to marry them off, kill them or whatever. Replacements will overrun your court soon after.

This is a major "bug", whether it's working as designed or not, and a hot fix should have been issued.

 

[Mel_E]

Indeed. The lag in "late" game is simple unbearable. A quick check of save file size will tell you that.

 

[whosthebestcop]

Turn off LoR. Retinues are extremely buggy. The auto general creating thing plus there maintenance fees are totally out of whack by the end of the game.

 

[JScott991]

I'm guessing there's been no word on whether there will be a patch to fix some of these issues?